Top 236 Precedent Quotes & Sayings

A precedent provides legal authority for an action precisely because it occurred before.

One precedent in favor of power is stronger than a hundred against it.

Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.

It's our responsibility as young men to set a new precedent for the next generation.

I would rather create a precedent than find one.

If settled means that it cant be re-examined, thats one thing. If settled means that it is a precedent that is entitled to respect then it is a precedent that is protected.

You shouldn't reward me for endangering your life, you know. Think of the precedent you're setting.

Don’t let the urgent take precedent over the important.

I think when any one kind of film does well, it creates a precedent and paves the way for more like it.

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.

There is no precedent of an advanced economy withdrawing from a trade agreement as deep and as complex as the European Union.

Everything I write has a precedent in truth.

One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings.

There's really no precedent for someone like me gaining clout in the space that I'm in - a black woman directing films in Hollywood.

Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged.

Is not Precedent indeed a King of men? A Word from the Psalmist.

One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.

I don't think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.

All I can say is that with business and the interest of any party before me, I will consider and apply the law as it is written by Congress and informed by precedent.

This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.

Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.

I think this sets a very bad precedent, the president unilaterally on his own starting war without any consent from Congress.

The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.

A precedent embalms a principle.

No crime has been without a precedent.

The president is supposed to execute faithfully the laws that the legislature has written. So, the executive orders that Barack Obama president is writing are without precedent. Without precedent so with he's rewriting law. It's totally illegal.

The precedent is that civilizations collapse, and everything's stacked up for this one to go, and it's a mess when it happens.

Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.

Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

There's precedent for adjudicatory proceedings on technology issues to have massive consumer and business benefits. One of the most famous was the so-called Carterfone decision in 1968.

Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.

What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent.

Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances.

As federal lawmakers, we have a responsibility to set a precedent for energy efficient practices.

There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did.

There is no precedent of a civilian population, displaced by a war that their leadership started and lost, claiming a right to return to territory that they failed to conquer.

Ultimately, with every film I'd done before, there was a reference. They have their own uniqueness, but there was always a precedent.

Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.

It's been really special being part of a project that's up with the times and woke and setting a precedent for inclusion and representation.

We have the precedent of Collin Powell ten years ago, when he showed the evidence, it was false, and it was forged.

The only thing that can be safely predicted is that sometime soon your organization will be challenged to change in ways for which it has no precedent.

Democrats creating the expectation that judges should act as politicians in robes is a dangerous precedent to set, threatening the very independence of the judiciary.

Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet.

I had a very long discussion with Justice Gorsuch in my office, and he pointed out to me that he is a co-author of a whole book on precedent. So, someone who devotes that much time to writing a book on precedent, I think, understands how important a principle that is in our judicial system.

My feeling is that the judge has a responsibility to the Constitution first, precedent second. Precedent is one factor. It is not the only factor. If it was the only factor, then, you know, we wouldn't have had Roe vs. Wade. We wouldn't have had Griswold. We wouldn't have had Lawrence. We wouldn't have had all these cases which the Left love.

Precedent goes in support of justice.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

If Donald Trump is one thing, he's a disruptive force who has never met a tradition and precedent that he doesn't want to disrupt.

[Donald Trump] has got his own controversies to deal with. The business conflicts are a big one. But he`s creating new ones. There`s no precedent for it.

It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing.

I certainly don't support billionaires bankrupting media organizations. Even if you don't like the people involved, that sets a dangerous precedent.

Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.

The first few touches of the game, that's kind of like setting the precedent for me.

Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

Discerning the legal difference between what WikiLeaks did and what news organizations do is difficult and would set a terrible precedent.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

I always look for judges who respect precedent.

A lawsuit with no legal precedent, seeking no damages, from no jury, in the name of stopping something that isn't happening? Only in New York.

When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.